STEP7 Micro. Win You. Siemens TIA Portal V1. Patch For Fifa 07 With Transfers here. Updated June, 2. 01. Totally Integrated Automation TIA is the current Siemens engineering framework for automation. It is vastly different from the 5. Overall, it has been improving steadily with each new version but there are still a few pesky issues that can be a bother. This is valid for version 1. June 2. 01. 6 but some of these issues have been present in earlier versions. I will update this post regularly. First things first back up often. With the classic Step 7 5. Sometimes it can be useful not to save after a download, so that you can quickly revert back to the last saved version. The programming editor could crash, resulting in the possible loss of work for any window in the editor that wasnt saved. Other components would survive the crash. There is an important deviation in TIA Portal a crash of the software brings down the entire software suite, resulting in the loss of anything not saved, not just the current window andor the current editor, but everything tags, alarms, HMI components, hardware configurations, etc. Therefore, it is sage advise to not only save but also back up often throughout the day. You cant save the contents of selected windows or components, it is all or nothing. Backing up an open project can be done from within TIA Portal without closing the project. The resulting. zap. ZIP file with a custom Windows extension. I should point out that since V1. The S7 Simulation PLC executes a program in the same manner as a hardware PLC. The advantage of executing a PLC program this way is, that the PLC status. Siemens PLC Simulator WinSPSS7 This Siemens PLC simulator bundle is a great tool for learning and development of Siemens PLCs S7200, S7300 and S7400. Model Number Description 6AG11531AA032XB0 SIPLUS DP ET200M IM1531 25. DGR C 6AG12122BB004AA3 SIPLUSEN50155NETCONFORMITYSCALANCE BASEDX2122ON. Update 3 the stability has vastly improved. With V1. 3 SP1 UPD1 I experienced only one crash knock on wood. Undo missing for STL networks. In any ladder network you can use the undo function. In STL networks, however, any accidental deletions of code or any typos are permanent no undo implemented for STL. Siemens engineers must never make mistakes. No undo for STL networks. Recently, I accidentally selected a fair amount of code and before realizing this I had pressed delete. I was able to restore the deleted code from one of the very frequent backups I make throughout the day, but it is time consuming to open a second project, find and copy the code. A simple undo would be so nice. Edit Even in ladder networks the undo function is not always available. It seems inconsistent. Update this has improved considerably with V1. Update 5. Major problem incorrect marking of difference offlineonline. Often, the software will indicate differences between onlineoffline versions. This seems to be based on time stamps, rather than actual code differences. See Comment changes in STL networks forces recompiledownload elsewhere. The classic Step 7 would display this with different symbols, red for code differences based on checksum and yellow for time stamp mismatches which can occur if you have made comment changes after downloading a block. In the above example FC1. FC1. 35 have the same checksum but different time stamps, so TIA Portal indicates this as a problem. It more or less forces a download or else it will be impossible to monitor the block. Unable to insert new STL network from STL network. From within a ladder network you can add a new ladder network via the button on the toolbar. Via a right click inside the network you can insert either a new ladder network or a new STL network. For STL networks there is no choice, you can only add a new ladder network, not a new STL network. You have to insert a ladder network first, then add a new STL network from there, then delete the ladder network. Seems like an oversight. Ghost ladder networks added. After adding a new ladder network after the last network another ladder network is always added right after the first object is added to the new network. I constantly find myself deleting these empty networks. Not sure what the rationale behind this could be. Seems like a bug. In this example, I added network 4. As soon as I add an object to the network, a new ladder network, here 4. Comment changes in STL networks forces recompiledownload. You can modify network comments for both ladder and STL networks without issues. However, any change in STL comments will require recompiling and downloading of the block. Annoying at best. Here is an example where the offlineonline versions match A modification to the first STL comment causes the entire block comparison to fail Insufficient scroll wheel support. The scroll wheel is supported. However, scrolling by hovering over a window without highlighting it is not supported consistently. Some windows like the assignment lists do not support scrolling with the scroll wheel at all. Really, Siemens No scrolling with Control UpDown. Any decent programming editor will support scrolling with the keyboard combinations Control Up and Control Down. It scrolls the page up and down without moving the location of the cursor. Version 5. x supported it, although not in all editors. SCL, for example, didnt support it. Unfortunately, this is not implemented for TIA Portal at all. Monitor after download. Once a block has been downloaded to the PLC it will take some time before TIA Portal performs a checksum test and updates the status indicating the offline and online version matches. Until then, the green play button remains greyed out. Sometimes, these delays are more than annoying if speed is of the essence. Fonts ignored when printing. When printing code the software ignored fonts defined for ladder and STL and uses Courier New for STL code. It uses a fairly large font size for this that seems disproportional to the font size for the ladder networks. Current settings General Scripttext editors Font General Scripttext editors STL General PLC programming LADFDB Font Given these settings, this is what the screen looks like from within TIA Portal When printing it is ignoring the font settings. The STL font is also disproportionally large compared to the text in the ladder logic Numerical format while monitoring. With Step 7 5. x you could right click and select a different format. Unfortunately, with TIA Portal the format cannot always be changed. When monitoring values in ladder networks, the format can be changed via right click modify display format When monitoring interface values for FBFC calls the format is almost always hexadecimal, making it difficult to interpret. The format cannot be changed A nice feature is that the columns with displayed values can be moved sideways. Tooltips obscuring view. More often than not the multitude of tooltips are obscuring the view of the code below it. It would be better to display information in the status bar. Or move the tooltips above the cursor. Or just dont pop them up when it is unnecessary, especially when monitoring online. STL address bug. When assigning the RLO to an address, TIA Portal considers entering db. Only with a space after the equal sign it will accept the input db. Label name. In the classic Step 7, label names were allowed to start with underscores. Not anymore If you start typing a quote after the jump instruction a popup appears. From there it allows you to select the jump label starting with an underscore However, it will still be regarded as invalid This is not necessarily a huge deal, but it seems more like a bug than intentional behavior. Edit I am happy to report that this has been fixed in V1. SP1 Upd. 3. Display gaps global addresses. In the overview for the global addresses, only addresses in use are displayed. It would be helpful if gaps were displayed, the way it was with Step 7 5.